Soon You Can Accept or Make Payment with STEEM Anywhere

How awesome would it be to be able to go to the shop or local cafe and make a purchase with STEEM? Well it looks like the future of retail is here. Being part of the @agorise telegram community I have been privileged to learn about an app that will be launching this week...and finally I can share some details

An app that will allow retailers accept payment in any cryptocurrency including STEEM - An app that will pay ambassadors every 3 seconds generating a possible awesome income stream - An app that will be live on Google play this week

The lack of this has been one of the most significant obstructions to using over the counter crypto payments in several jurisdictions in my opinion. I don't want to file a taxable foreign exchange transaction each time I'm buying a coffee.
So if this was to be solved in a convenient manner by any payment provider I would already be grateful.

Boy I hope this works. I tried to explain Steem to my landlady, but she'd never heard of BTC. I had to resort to comparing it to international wire transfers, and now she thinks she would have to be a bank to use it =p

This is just the kind of world that i dream we should live in, in order to control the rate of crimes in our society just because of holding cash. With digital currency the world is going heavenly. Thanks for post

This sounds great for all the people who are into cryptos.. but do you really think many businesses would be willing to adopt the system? I know big corporations might, but what about the small businesses who have 0 knowledge of cryptos? I think it will take time and a lot of effort to get more people into the loop and prepare them for this

It seems like everything around crypto that does not involve lambos is seen as negative.. i wasn't trying to be... all I am saying is that your average Joe running a business and his average customers do not know enough about cryptos to be using such a service. It is a great idea but we need to invest in making it easier for people to educate themselves on cryptos and all the related benifits/services.

why would they NEED to know anything about crypto to use that card?
do they understand the intricasies of master card and visa...yet they use them
some even use paypal and American Express...do you think they understand the nuts and bolts of those?

You do have a point and I had missed the fact that they instantly convert your coins to the local currency which makes it much more attractive in the short term. I am completely new to all of this and trying to learn so thanks for the chat, it helped!

You're welcome. I have something called the 'shift card'...a type of Visa debit card.
it debits my crypto account at the point of sale.
works just fine ..no one would know I'm paying in bitcoin unless I told them..
but it's a visa card..

I totally agree, but it isn't that easy to get into cryptos and such for average people. I think that the ones who can get the most out of this system are big corporation while most smaller businesses will struggle to adapt. Just an opinion from somebody who is trying to educate himself on this stuff :)

I think they younger generations' businesses will adopt it faster than bigger corporations.

Having said that, I am in my mid 40's and I am looking for a solution like this so I'm not having to use 5 different wallets depending on who want's to pay with what. My businesses are very small, 2 person's each. Other than my own anecdote I don't know how to address your concerns other than to say sink or swim.

I said in another I had missed an important part: they convert your coins to your local currency instantly.. now I feel like an idio but hey gotta learn the hard way sometimes ;) thanks for the discussion!

hopefully this will also affect the price of bitshares a bit, they could use a small boost.
I really like this idea... will be keeping an eye on it
If everyone only ever keeps the coins there will never be a market, people need to be able to spend them, then they might slowly be starting to want to spend them
thanks

I understand the business owners needs to install the wallet and then it can start accepting crypto payments. The website should implement a store's locator, I would like to buy a coffee with my Steem for a test purpose.

Hmm they say its already running for 3 years, but the link to the android app isn't working. Going to google play store shows only a Korean app with 2 reviews. It received its last update on 17 October 2017. I didn't install it.

This sounds awesome. Being able to pay with Steem directly instead of going through a series of intermediary steps would really eliminate a "pain point" for many Steemians. The only drawback, as I see it, is that it's only launching on Google Play/Android and not Apple/iOS. However, that might be the final nudge needed to get me to abandon Apple forever...

Excellent! This is indeed very good news, I think it is the first tool to use STEEM as money in commercial transactions, this means a more realistic possibility of payment with cryptocurrency than that presented by the BTC, with its absurd fees and an excessive transaction time.

the greatness of the steem creators increasingly global .. all forms of breakthrough will be in the effort by the rulers of steem ... hopefully we are still very left behind you can you help for steem progress .. thank you

Finally it's here...have been waiting for this project for a long. Now is the time to rebuild what we started last year. People don't believe it's true. Believe me, I tested this product last (from different name) and this is a relaunch. Congratulation to @agorise team . The Graphene ecosystem have a POS solution.

Super ace! Just imagine a world where everyone can provide an income for themselves doing what they love, and are not forced to spend all of their time in a 50 hr week dull job just to make ends meet.
Steem and crypto are going to change civilization.

Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!!! I have been searching for an online payment system for my websites that accepts Steem (and of course other cryptos) for the past two months and I haven't been happy with anything I've seen so far.

Sounds like a fairly good idea, but it would be pointless until we have a windows wallet that the average user can use. The linux node is a sick joke at best, wasted a month trying to get a linux node up and running, gave up in the end. :(

This truly is AWESOME! I just downloaded the app but will look into it more, just wanted to confirm that it was REAL and it surely is! WOW!@dcryptogold check this out! This is EXACTLY what we were talking about!